Normative Power Europe and the Moral Economy of Africa–EU Ties: A Conceptual Reorientation of ‘Normative Power’
Normative Power Europe and the Moral Economy of Africa–EU Ties: A Conceptual Reorientation of ‘Normative Power’
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欧洲规范权力与非洲-欧盟关系的道德经济：“规范权力”概念的重新定位
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10.1080/13563467.2011.562975
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
M. Langan
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作者：
M. Langan
在研究军事政策、人权和国际贸易等领域的欧盟对外关系时，“正常力量”是一个日益流行的概念。由礼仪定义，它承认欧洲项目的规范基础，审查欧洲如何采取行动(重新)塑造国际公认的规范，并声称欧洲应该影响外部合作伙伴在追求公正的全球秩序中的“正常”行为概念。然而，本文认为，道德经济学视角是对规范性权力概念进行关键重新定位的核心，目的是评估名义上的欧盟规范和实质性的欧盟政策结果之间的差异。它考察了欧洲在与非洲、加勒比和太平洋(非加太)国家的关系中的“规范性力量”，展示了非加太-欧盟关系的道德经济是如何在与欧洲关于团结“穷人”的伦理规范的谈判中建立起来的。然而，从非加太国家弱势公民的利益来看，非加太-欧盟关系的道德经济被认为是不符合道德的。相反，嵌入有关扶贫“发展”的道德规范，使不对称的经济联系合理化。“正常力量”被理解为欧盟在与外部“伙伴”的关系中利用道德规范来实现地缘政治利益和商业利益的合法化和自我合理化。
‘Normative power’ is an increasingly popularised concept in the study of EU external relations in fields including military policy, human rights, and international trade. Defined by Manners, it acknowledges the normative foundations of the European project, examines how Europe acts to (re)shape internationally accepted norms, and makes the claim that Europe ought to influence external partners' conception of ‘normal’ behaviour in pursuit of a just global order. This article, however, argues that a moral economy perspective is central to a critical reorientation of the concept of normative power towards appraisal of discrepancies between nominal EU norms and material EU policy outcomes. Examining Europe's ‘normative power’ in its relations with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries, it demonstrates how a moral economy of ACP–EU ties has been instituted in negotiation with European ethical norms as to solidarity with ‘the poor’. Nevertheless, the moral economy of ACP–EU ties is seen not to be ‘moral’ in terms of outcomes for vulnerable citizens in ACP countries. Rather the embedding of moral norms concerning pro-poor ‘development’ has rationalised asymmetric economic ties. ‘Normative power’ is understood as the EU's utilisation of moral norms in the public legitimisation and self-rationalisation of geopolitical interest and commercial gain in its relations with external ‘partners’.